I would love to embed a couple of Stephen Colbert videos here, but Comedy Central’s embed tags are screwed up. In the past I’ve manually edited them to get the widescreen mode working or fix an incorrect ID number, where the wrong video was coming up, but now I’m getting nothing. Please fix this, Comedy Central.
Category: Stephen Colbert
Vanity Fair and balanced
Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz is ten years older than Paul Krugman, over whom Stiglitz had some influence. They’re like-minded, but as one would expect they don’t always agree on the details. In this month’s Vanity Fair, Stiglitz weighs in on the top 1% wealthiest among us Americans. Stephen Colbert had Stiglitz on his show shortly after the economic meltdown of 2008, when Krugman won his own Nobel.
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Joseph Stiglitz | ||||
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I’ve Fallon and I can’t get up!
When I read that Ben & Jerry’s ice cream had given Jimmy Fallon his own flavor, I knew that Stephen Colbert wouldn’t let the threat to his Americone Dream go unchallenged.
The Colbermann Report
Obama’s SOTU speech is on TV, and every so often I turn off muting, but every time I do that I’m not too excited by what I hear. So, instead, I’m going to watch Stephen Colbert absorbing Keith Olbermann’s power, only to find it too much, even for him.
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Stephen Rejects Keith Olbermann’s Power | ||||
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Palin in comparision
Stephen Colbert deftly dissected Sarah Palin’s self-serving defense against the latest criticisms about her place in American political discourse.
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| The Word – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Angriness | ||||
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Peanuts and nut cases
The 1975-to-1976 volume of “The Complete Peanuts” has a thoughtful and sincere appreciation of Charles M. Schulz, in a foreword by cartoon comedy bad boy Robert Smigel. His “TV Funhouse” series began on “The Dana Carvey Show”, before moving to “Saturday Night Live”. Smigel’s outrageous parody of 70’s Saturday morning cartoons, “The Ambiguously Gay Duo”, features the voices of Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, and Colbert also did some of the writing. This is the first episode, “It Takes Two To Tango”, from September 28, 1996. Watching this makes me wish Colbert would bring back Tek Jansen. Note: this is a PG-13 cartoon! It starts after a brief comic bit by Carell about a dedicated athlete.